The Brookings Institution has published a study of absenteeism rates that shows they have soared. But as of now, the reasons for increased absenteeism are unidentified.
The study was conducted by Tom Swiderski, Sarah Crittenden Fuller, and Kevin C. Bastian.
Here is the key finding:
“Between 2018-19 and 2021-22, the percentage of chronically absent K-12 students nearly doubled from 15% to 28%, with only a marginal decline in 2022-23, remaining well above pre-pandemic levels.”
Why are children and young people not attending school? What are they doing instead? What are the costs to them and their schools?
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Funny how you say “post-pandemic” as if COVID isn’t still killing ~1,000/week and that’s just those we know. The total is probably a lot higher since most aren’t testing and the government is no longer assembling and disseminating the data of those who do test. Also as if long-COVID isn’t a thing that is still disabling many who have had COVID, including young people and their caregivers.
And then, of course, there are the factors besides COVID. Worsening economic conditions, rampant militarism pushing for WWII, on-going, unchecked slaughter in Palestine and Lebanon, etc.
And finally there is the growing push to turn all but the richest schools into prisons in a misguided and futile attempt to control kids rather than work with them. School is certainly not a place I’d like to be these days and I liked it in my day. It’s more a wonder that that many kids are still going to school.
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Dienne,
The title of the study uses the term “post-pandemic.” Are you suggesting that I should change the authors’ title? I don’t do that.
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Diane: The fundamental principle the GOP is following (and so-called conservatives like Betsy-type billionaires) is not based on legitimate competitive practices–which don’t apply to public institutions anyway because of legitimate differences.
Rather, the principle is this:
If your competitor is getting the best of you, then, destroy your competitor, slowly, if necessary, by making them unattractive to their “customers” who of course will vote with their feet.
This, instead of just trying to produce a better product or service or, better yet, understanding and adhering to the common good of having public institutions to mediate foundational concerns for one’s Constitution and culture, e.g., for education, health services, the post office, etc., defense/the military, the sciences, etc. CBK
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You have a good topic for a study there. Since the study in question dates from the onset of the pandemic, it would be interesting to note what was causing the problem. Is the persistence of the problem Covid related? Economic?
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My fear is that extended school closures ruptured a social norm that was more delicate than many assumed.
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I reached out to a former administrator I worked with to see about that trend locally. Haven’t heard back. My guess is that the Covid introduced an era of heightened population movement.
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I’ve talked to several parents in my area and they all say the same thing. What they saw with “online learning” was awful. Kids sit on computers all day long (even in elementary school) and they aren’t learning and they aren’t happy. Having small children sitting at desks for hours on end is torture. Recess is a few minutes(if any at all), lunch is a “stuff your face as fast as you can” joke. There is nothing organic or fun about the school day anymore.
The parents I see out at the park are teaching their children out in nature with hands on science experiments. They teach math concepts with cooking. The kids are reading about things they want to learn about. They aren’t rated, ranked and trotted out as show ponies (testing/data mining). Many have joined homeschool co-ops and they go on field trips together and have activity days for PE
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These children are not the absent ones. Homeschool co-ops are not counted as absent students that I know of.
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She was not making that claim. She was asserting that many people are leaving public schools because of the standards-and-testing occupation of those schools, which has made many of them unbearable.
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Sorry, Roy. I had to leave my comment unfinished due to navigating a healthcare nightmare for my son who’s away at college. Adulting them is a lot harder these days!
I’ve heard parents flat out tell their kids that if they don’t want to go to school, they don’t have to go. The parents often site that the kids aren’t learning anything worthwhile anyway. What parents saw during Covid (useless “learning” online)has made many of them see that school is just a waste of time for a whole lot of kids. If a parent has a kid who isn’t going to college, why should that child sit through all of the hell in public school? “College and career ready” (for all) has been relegated to the trash bin. And ask any kid who skips class and they will tell you that the way the grading system is set up, they will pass anyway whether they show up or not….or do the work or not. “Influencers” only need a cell phone, a TicTok account, and a schtick to make money….no education needed.
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The Nazis were able to operate as they did because of hundreds of thousands of people just following orders, no matter how egregious. Our schools are now full of administrators and district personnel of this type who are following the orders of the standards-and-testing occupying force that has taken them over. School has become for many utterly joyless. Thanks Billy Boy Gates, you freaking, clueless moron. You have no idea how much damage you have done.
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LisaM,
You bring up good points. However, the way schools function today are the result of PUBLIC POLICY DECISIONS.
While I don’t know your views, it’s amazing how many people who supported Jeb Bush, Michelle Rhee, Scott Walker, Bill Gates (before he became the COVID boogeyman), Michael Bloomberg’s, etc. views and moves in education as well as “Waiting for Superman,” post-Katrina New Orleans school organization, thought Barack Obama via Arne Duncan made good compromises with the right, etc. in the 2000s and early 2010s, complain the things that brought them joy in school pre-2000 don’t exist anymore.
The way schools operate today are a direct result of those politicians and the businesspeople who had influence on them.
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Perhaps in many schools today there is a sense of creeping anomie among our young people. I see it my grandson who finds it difficult to get excited about high school except for the fact he is on the wrestling team. Perhaps this feeling is caused by past Covid disruption or by the fact that so much instruction is delivered by a machine. Cyber instruction is aimless and dehumanizing. Someone needs to do a deep study into looking at how many schools with higher rates of absenteeism are also schools that offer mostly online instruction. They should examine the attendance rates in schools that deliver most instruction in person and compare them to those that largely deliver instruction online. Even when public schools have human teachers present in the classroom, their role has become diminished. That sense of community and connection that come from human engagement is missing.
The continuing war on public education is also harming our young people as states present curricula designed to fail large numbers of students. My grandson is in algebra 1, and he has passed the STAAR assessments thus far. The math program expects these students to graph parabolas without presenting the basics. I had two years of algebra in high school. As I recall, graphing parabolas came much later. The students are totally perplexed, not just my grandson. He attends high school in Texas where perhaps the goal is to fail most of the students so Abbott can shut the public schools down and privatize them. It is hard for young people and teachers to get excited about school when education has become so irrational and politicized.
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“Perhaps this feeling is caused by. . . .”That feeling of anomie IS CAUSED by the standards and testing malpractice regime plain and simple. What has that abomination of educational policy done to improve the teaching and learning process?
Nada, zip, zilch and actually it has had a total negative effect on the teaching and learning process.
No wonder children don’t want to attend school. They know they are being used, that their individual learning means jackshit.
We (as teachers) have failed in our basic responsibility.
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The standards and testing regime has, indeed, done a number of public schools. A lot of what goes on in them now is meaningless. Prep for tests. Taking practice tests. Doing data chats. Taking the tests themselves. Using dumbed-down test preppy curriculum materials. It’s an abomination, and the rest of the world is going to eat our lunch unless we stop it.
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cx: done a number on public schools
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It’s sad indeed. Maybe some teachers forget how to teach, or their hands are tied with canned instruction.
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In my woeful experience, many of the young ones have been utterly brainwashed to be Common Core do-bees and would not know how to teach their subjects. These are just fine with sitting at their desks while the kids do online bullshit that is automatically scored. It beats working.
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It’s not just students who are suffering. My husband is an English teacher and he’s being crushed under the data collection wheel. Inputting useless data for each standard multiple times a year. He’s giving so many tests now that he can barely read a book in English class. Nothing gets done with this data. It means absolutely nothing. I really believe now that it’s busywork used to justify administrative jobs. He screams in the car on his way home. And sometimes at home. I’m worried about his health. I’m glad he’s near retirement.
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I suggest the book The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen. You will be disabused of the idea that Americans have it so good.
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I have no need to be “disabused of the idea that Americans have it so good.”
I’ve never been one of the ‘America is the greatest nation on earth’ crowd.
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Bob,
I look at the bright, new 24 year old teachers fresh out of college that I have at my school. I think to myself that there’s no way they’re going to make it 35-40 more years in this profession.
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If the parents thought that online learning was “awful” during the pandemic, what they don’t understand is that this type of disaster capitalism was merely a test run for teaching children with technology. That’s the end game for what privatizers and voucher proponents want. Unaccountable tax dollars for private and home schooling (dune buggies for all!), and the remaining students “taught” with computers and AI. No more human teachers needed. They are already using data collection to come up with computerized teaching models for the great unwashed. Our schools are filled with this garbage and our teachers are “required” to administer a prescribed amount of IReady minutes each week onto young kids who struggle with typing and the English language. Everything is about data collection. The tech itself interferes with their ability to learn. It’s just shameful how the adults who push this crap on our kids happily look the other way while the $$$ rolls in, and at the same time pushing vouchers. It’s the American dream, or the American nightmare. Thanks, Bill Gates…
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Yeah. Our whole approach to life is killing us – mentally, physically, psychologically and spiritually. But until we hit rock bottom, we won’t give it too much thought. And then when we do, we’ll take the easiest band-aid approach and then wonder why that didn’t work. And we’ll do it again.
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It’s also possible that some of this is due to the disrespect of schools among fundamentalist parents now that they have been indoctrinated by Trumpy Republicans to believe that schools are evil hotbeds of Marxist teaching. More parents now, I suspect, lack respect for the institution.
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I have 14y/o twins and I write for a local paper and on Substack about the extraordinary failure of special education. Approximately 30% of all kids have a neuro-atypical way of learning. Yet, districts across the US have only 13-15% of kids in special education and that includes many with medical issues as well as those with learning differences. We have long standing problem in this country of school districts gaslighting parents of kids with learning disabilities in order to deflect their obligation to both “Child Find” and then to teach appropriately.
A quick review of the in depth investigations into special education done by major news organizations across the country will demonstrate the concerted effort by school districts to NOT teach our kids with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD etc.. (I also provide links in my articles) This problem is well know by the 30% of families who have bright but neuro-atypical learners. Many of those families leave the public school system to homeschool or look for a smaller private school where they feel their kid might be better served. After Covid, many of these families realized they could look for other ways to educate their kids. I believe they now feel more confident trying alternatives to public school.
Do these alternatives work? That seems to depend on wether the family has resources or not. If they can simply pay for specific interventions then the child may do well. However, the homeschoolers with learning disabled students now have a new problem. The school district is still required to assess and provide special education intervention for any homeschooled child in the district. In our area the latest district parental gaslighting technique goes as follows. Homeschool parents realize their kid is struggling with reading. They ask the district for an evaluation. They are told that since the homeschool kid is doing 2nd grade curriculum in reading when they are 4th grade that the district can’t evaluate. This is of course a flat out lie. But not all parents know this and it is exactly what some of our local school districts are doing to parents.
Pervasive, and illegal, deflection of neuro-atypical kids by the school districts is part of the removal of kids from public schools.
Another issue is the extraordinary high pressure environment that now exists in schools starting in Kindergarten. One of the key causes of this is Common Core and standardized testing. Psychologist Peter Gray has written extensively on the anxiety and school trauma that is generated in modern classrooms. Ask a parent or a child what causes kids the most anxiety and they will often say, school.
After Covid, many parents began to realize that we don’t need to put our kids through that insane pressure cooker. My primary role as a parent has been to protect my kids from learning environments that would crush the love of learning right out of them. I have at times been able to find a good environment within the public school system and at other times have had to pull my kids from public school.
2 months into 1st grade and my son had become progressively depressed until he was saying he “didn’t want to live.” At age 6. My daughter was so anxious she cried every night. At age 6. I volunteered, at this highly rated school, and realized I couldn’t fix the problems. We moved to private Montessori. Day one, they came home happy. In a month they loved school again and my son was back on track. We stayed through 3rd grade.
4th grade, public school. A disaster. You can’t tell a school is bad until you’re in it. I moved them back to Montessori private school half way through the year.
5th grade, homeschooled through Covid. Went fine.
6th grade, public school with 3 fantastic middle school teachers who worked as a team and understood the developmental stage. Great year.
7th grade, all the good teachers left after the previous years harassment by Mom’s for liberty. Terrible replacement teachers. Terrible year.
8th grade, found a 8th-12th grade, project based, semi independant learning public school outside our district. It taps kids internal desires to learn, teaches executive function skills within the structure of the curriculum, has a small community of 100 students. Kids are thriving there.
Through out all of this I have battled with special education in 3 different school districts. Ultimately, we just got my son what he needed outside the school system and paid out of pocket. We are not rich and I can’t imagine how a low income family can get real help for a child with a learning difference.
There are likely some kids not enrolled in public schools because of parental ideology. And these get written about in news articles. But I suspect the largest numbers (don’t know this for sure) are from a combination of parents removing kids from high pressure public schools that generate anxiety and from the 30% of kids with learning differences that are not being served by public schools.
To be clear. I am a huge believer in the importance of public schools. They are truly a foundation of democracy. But Common Core, standardized testing, poor teacher education, policy decisions by non-educators etc. have all destroyed public schools.
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You are wrong, public schools nationwide have not been destroyed and the situation or condition of schools varies from state to state, city/town to city/town, thousands of schools districts, etc.
NJ schools are highly rated.
Sure, some public schools have challenging problems but to state that they have been destroyed is a bridge too far.
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Joe Jersey….my guess is that you have been retired for about 10-12 yrs? Oh, how it’s all changed! Dramatically. I live in MD (which used to be similar to NJ education-wise) and the kids here are stressed beyond belief. I’ve also heard this from a few pediatricians who are seeing more patients with anxiety issues than for usual childhood health issues.
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Many of my high-school kids were close to suicidal by testing season. “Pressure cooker” is an apt analogy.
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Bob, I know I was the boogey man on this blog 7-8 yrs ago when I put my 2nd child in private HS (we paid….no vouchers!) That has been the best decision that I ever made for that child and I have absolutely 0 regrets. He got a much saner and holistic education than the public school was offering and it was much more rigorous and engaging without being overwhelming. ELA really was how one thought about the literature being taught. So what if he had to say a few “Amens”……his religion classes were his favorite classes (because we weren’t religious at home….at all!). He hated ELA…..but his favorite teachers were his 3 ELA teachers. What a difference it made.
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Lisa,
I don’t care if parents want to send their kids to nonpublic schools so long as they don’t expect the public to pay for their private choices.
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Lisa, this is a source of grief for me. I believe public education to be extraordinarily important, but in many areas of the country, public schools have been so taken over by Common Core, testing, test prep, mind-numbing computer programs, and self-censorship due to organizations like the Ku Klux Karens (oh, gee, I meant the Moms for “Liberty”) that I cannot in good conscience advise people to send their kids there. Similarly, because of all that AND the micromanagement and lack of autonomy in teaching today, even though I think of teaching as one of the two noblest of professions (alongside nursing), I cannot in good conscience, these days, advise young people to go into it. Something needs to break besides our kids. The test and punish regime needs to end, and teachers need to regain the professional autonomy they used to have. Otherwise, we will become a third-world nation, our kids will continue to suffer from an epidemic of depression, and India and China will eat our lunch.
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many parents began to realize that we don’t need to put our kids through that insane pressure cooker
exactly
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People don’t want to hear messages like yours, Sleepless, but I have seen this as well. My own daughter pulled my grandkids out of public school because of the excessive Common Core testing and the idiotic, mind-numbing Common Core curricula. The schools that have taken Common Core and testing to heart have become loci of child abuse. And until the federal testing mandate ends, the abuse will continue. And how does it end? Only if the major teachers’ unions call nationwide actions until it is repealed. Until the unions do this and force the issue, THEY ARE COMPLICIT IN CHILD ABUSE.
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Not only that, Bob, the unions are working AGAINST the interests of their OWN members!!! Teachers are suffering as much as students in this whole picture.
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I agree. As far as I know, most of the suburban districts in the Northeast continue to provide meaningful, engaging human instruction while using computers to support instruction, although students still have to take the standardized tests. Students’ days are not a steady diet of tedious electronic worksheets.
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RT, I think you would be surprised, even shocked, if you saw actual tallies of the time devoted to test prep and testing, especially since ALMOST ALL ELA CURRICULA HAVE BEEN REVAMPED TO BE TEST PREPPY.
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retired teacher,
Thank you! That also describes some of the urban public high schools in NYC, too.
I was thinking that what my kid was learning was 100x better than the rote textbooks I used in a 1970s public school. I marveled at how good the science was instead of the dull science teaching of the 1970s textbooks. And now I learn on this blog that all public schools for the last 10 or 15 years were only teaching students how to take a test and I was oblivious.
Here I am thinking that today’s 18-25 year olds who were “stuck” in those terrible public schools are amazing! They can think! They can write! They were engaged! Turns out all they know is how to take a test.
Despite the bashing of their education I keep reading here, it is these incredibly thoughtful and empathetic young people whose education was supposedly so terrible who will probably save our country, unless the middle aged and older voters (who were taught in the supposedly halcyon pre-Common Core days) destroy it with their zombie-like adoration of Trump.
I guess it’s required that I bash all public schools as terrible now in order to be a member of the cool kids club on this blog. I admit I am just a parent, so I expect to be attacked for liking the public schools even after Common Core. Clearly I have no idea what I am talking about and parents should avoid public schools like the plague. I’ll try to spread the word.
Of course kids are struggling emotionally in both public and private schools but that is a much more complicated issue. The young people I know weren’t overly stressed about the Common Core curricula or a standardized test. They were stressed about their family’s economic situation or health or the long commute or so many other things. Not whether their AP History class taught too much to the test or not. Good teachers made class good. Bad teachers made class bad. That was true before anyone ever heard of Common Core.
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I often think that the people who pour vitriol on our public schools are really expressing contempt for our nation.
I love watching right wingers squirm when I ask them, how can America be a great country if it’s schools are so bad.
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I have family members that teach in PA and NJ, and lots of teaching friends in suburban NYC. These young people still have to take the tests, but the majority of instruction is delivered by human teachers. They are not being treated like widgets on a production line. They are still getting a comprehensive education. In states with right wing extremist governors and in poor districts the young people and teachers are victims of the war on public schools.
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Ok my last post was slightly off base as the article wasn’t about loss of school enrollment, which is also happening, but rather about absenteeism.
Simple answer is related to problems I mentioned in the other post. There is no joy left in many modern public schools. Common Core, standardized testing, and the “business model” of education reform have created a ripple through that has ripped all the fun out of school. And teachers have their hands tied by curriculum rules. Just go read Finnish Lessons 3.0 and you’ll see how far off track our schools are. Kids have to live that dreary place every day. Often both parents and kids feel the anxiety it generates. So mental health days are needed for kids and opportunities to learn in the outside world are valued above strict attendance. If we fix the schools, I suspect they’ll come back. Children are pre-programmed to learn and grow. If you create an environment that nurtures that, they’ll come back. But right now most public schools are pressure cookers aimed at getting kids to jump through hoops that hold not meaning.
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There is no joy left in many modern public schools.
Spot on.
Stopping by School on a Disruptive Afternoon | Bob Shepherd | Praxis (wordpress.com)
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But right now most public schools are pressure cookers
I saw this first-hand before I left teaching. By the end of the year, during testing season, my high-school students were ready to blow. Intense pressure. Sickening. Literally.
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Oh, hell yes!
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I think it’s because of the fact that less than a third of the population is keeping up to date with COVID vaccinations. And COVID keeps mutating, so the updated vaccinations are needed to stay as safe as possible. I’ve had five jabs. The latest update isn’t out yet or I might have avoided COVID.
COVID is a dangerous virus that does a lot of damage to our vital organs, including our brain, that some may never recover from.
Also, who wears masks these days in public and follows the six-foot rule?
Almost on one wears masks or is taking any precautions. I’m one of the rare few that still wears a mask in public, and even I got COVID last month because no one else wears masks.
Thanks to the careless many, I got COVID, and I’m back to isolating as much as possible.
In the last few weeks while I’ve been recovering, hopefully, from COVID, I’ve talked to people that have had COVID multipole times. My son-in-law has had it twice. Another three times.
One woman said she got it once in 2021 and lost her sense of smell and taste, along with other damage, and didn’t get her smell and taste back until a few months ago in 2024, this year.
Fear of the virus and the fact that many are living like there is no threat may alarm some parents, and some children are going to get COVID repeatedly. Eventually that will cause more parents to take more precautions and keep their children home when there’s an outbreak from a mutation there is no vaccine for yet.
Every individual who doesn’t wear a mask in public is volunteering their body to become a host for COVID, so it keeps mutating and spreading.
And it isn’t just COVID. Not taking precautions in public and avoiding vaccines is responsible for a return of disease that were almost gone.
Polio is one of several.
This news report is dated 2014. Trump did not invent the anti-vaccine movement. Still, Trump took advantage of that fear he learned about on FOX, to encourage people to rebel and refuse to be vaccinated even while he was being vaccinated.
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Emerging Thanks to Anti-Vaxxers | TIME
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Been out in the woods at the North Fork River for the last two weeks and I see that wordpress still has “issues”.
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Smart man
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where is the North Fork?
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The North Fork is the easternmost part of New York’s Long Island. It’s a waterfront area with lots of vineyards and other agriculture. I spend about half the year “out East.” It’s very pretty and quiet, except for October when hordes of people arrive to buy Halloween pumpkins.
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Oops? I see you were responding to Duane, who went to the North Fork River, which must be in Missouri where Duane lives.
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Southwest central MO west of West Plains. It is in Osage County that borders on Arkansas. It’s much like the Current or Jacks Fork, spring fed but has many different kinds of fish due to being connected to Norfolk Lake. Stripers, white bass, muskie, black basses, gar, catfish, trout, etc. . . .
If your ever in the area make sure to stop at Roys Store/gas station/restaurant on Hwy 181 in Dora, MO. They have the best pies, on par with my Aunt Helen’s and my mom’s (they are three months apart and raised as sisters). And that is saying a lot. The strawberry rhubarb was fantastic. Not a bad price $3.99 for a good size slice.
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I found your description of Long Island’s North Fork interesting. I was indeed asking Duane about his river trip, as Melissa and I have been on Missouri’s Jacks Fork, a beautiful Ozark River. This has prompted several Duane conversations about Ozark rivers, some of the most beautiful I ever saw. My father grew up swimming in North Fork Creek, which ran through the home place. Norfolk, NE is misnamed, and locals call it Norfork, probably for the north fork of the Elkhorn River. I bet there is one in every state.
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when we canoed the Jacks Fork from Emminence to the Current River, it was loaded with wildlife. Trope-Crowned Night Herons, coon, mink, and plenty of fish
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I have to agree with Joe Jersey and retired teacher on’s latest comments regarding NJ schools. Yes our NJ schools do engage in data collection, and yes there are instances where online platforms support learning, but we are ever vigilant of when these protocols start to become “too much.” As parents and teachers (via our union), we offer valuable feedback on testing and technology to inform instruction. In my district, our special needs program is very highly rated. This year, special needs programs continue to thrive as other programs have unfortunately suffered staffing issues since funding for this current year has taken a hit. We lost a music teacher whose position was absorbed and other related arts teachers are covering the holes due to low enrollment. However, every teacher still has a schedule that follows the contract. We strive to provide specialized programs for our neuro-divergent students. On very rare occasions, we have to place students out-of-district because their needs are too great for us to handle, but these students generally present with extreme behavioral dispositions.
Keeping on topic here, I’d like to point out a very important issue that should be considered. Health protocols during the pandemic required students (and staff) with Covid diagnoses to miss many consecutive days of school while they recovered. My 4th grade daughter—who never knew what pre-Covid public school was like—has missed many days of school due to these very conservative isolation requirements both from county health department mandates and her own pediatrician’s orders. During the height of the pandemic, every time she was sick she had to stay out of school for the better part of a week—even when she did not have Covid. (She has bad allergies and is prone to ear and sinus infections.) I believe the isolation requirement is a very important cause of absenteeism that should be considered in the discussion. Last week, my daughter had her second bout with Covid in two months time after having avoided it for 4.5 years. Her first experience with Covid was this past July, and she was very sick for two weeks with both Covid and a secondary infection. Had she been in school, she would have missed ten consecutive days. This most recent time, she tested positive on a Sunday with mild symptoms. The doctor wanted her out until Thursday. School had just started the Thursday prior, and then she was out for several days. This is the new normal. People who are able to are keeping their children home because of concern for spread of infection or because the child needs to get well before going back. I’d very much like to read the study to see if a link to public health protocols was found.
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